Need Help With This Assignment?

Let Our Team of Professional Writers Write a PLAGIARISM-FREE Paper for You!

SUBMIT YOUR ASSIGNMENT

American History, Coursework

The New Deal

The New Deal

Consider workers, immigrants, and African Americans. Explain how the New Deal represented minorities.

While the New Deal was designed to benefit African Americans formally, some programs excluded and even hurt them. The National Industrial Recovery Act covered industries that primarily excluded Blacks. Neither domestic nor farm labor, the two sectors with most of its workers from the African American communities, were covered by the provisions stipulated in the NIRA. Similarly, the 1935 Social Security Act failed to offer domestic and farm workers pensions. This effectively excluded elderly African Americans. Additionally, Executive Order 8802, signed by Roosevelt, also referred to as the Fair Employment Act, asserted that companies with government defense contracts were expected to employ non-discriminatorily. Employers were not to discriminate based on national origin, religion, or race to help Blacks as well as other minorities to obtain jobs in production firms for WWII (Braik, 2018).

Are you interested in an original copy of “The New Deal”? Contact us.

Analyze to what extent you think that the New Deal effectively ended the Great Depression and restored the economy.

The reforms by the New Deal fostered the growth of wages and sustained Americans’ purchasing power through the labor movement, the establishment of financial regulations, and Social Security. Even though the reforms were imperfect, they ensured there would not be another eruption of the Great Depression (OpenStax, 2019). The 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act was enacted as part of the New Deal to foster fair competition through wages, price fixing, production quotas, and other measures. In November of the same year, Roosevelt also announced the creation of the Civil Works Administration (CWA) as part of the New Deal. The CWA was supposed to hire workers in public project creation, where both men and women would be hired (OpenStax, 2019).

Additionally, in 1935, the creation of the Works Progress Administration had a positive impact. This is because it resulted in the employment of 8 million Americans in project buildings such as schools, parks, airports, and bridges, among others (OpenStax, 2019). Although such programs contributed to the end of the Great Depression, they were insufficient because they lacked significant government funds (Kennedy, 2009).

However, even though the U.S. has not repeated the Great Depression catastrophe, it does not imply that the New Deal programs can be credited for their success. Other factors came into play, including World War II’s eruption. It can be argued that WWII increased GNP and lowered the unemployment rate through weapons production, which played a significant role (Kennedy, 2009).

Other Related Post: Homeland Security

References

Braik, F. (2018). New Deal for Minorities During the Great Depression. Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 1(1), 20-24.

Kennedy, D. M. (2009). What the New Deal Did. Political Science Quarterly, 124(2), 251-268.

OpenStax. (2019). U.S. history. OpenStax CNX. Retrieved from https://cnx.org/contents/p7ovuIkl@6.18:gMXC1GEM@7/Introduction 

ORDER A PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPER HERE

We’ll write everything from scratch

Question 

Week 6 Discussion 1 The New Deal

Required Resources

The New Deal

The New Deal

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Initial Post Instructions:

For the initial post, pick two (2) of the following (any program and act of the New Deal):

Programs Acts
Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)

Public Works Administration (PWA)

Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Farm Security Administration (FSA)

 Emergency Banking Relief Act

Economy Act

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Tennessee Valley Authority Act (TVA)

National Employment System Act (Wagner-Peyser Act)

Home Owners Loan Act

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIA)

Glass-Steagall Act (Banking Act)

Securities & Exchange Act

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act

Resettlement Administration (RA)

Rural Electrification Administration (REA)

National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)

Social Security Act

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

Reflecting over the weekly reading and lesson video The New Deal Coalition (also linked in the Required Resources), address the following for your selections:

  • Consider workers, immigrants, and African Americans. Explain how the New Deal represented minorities.
  • Analyze to what extent you think that the New Deal effectively ended the Great Depression and restored the economy.

Follow-Up Post Instructions

Compare your selections and analysis of selections with those of your peers. If they chose different events, examine how yours are similar and/or different. If they chose the same events, build on their posts by providing additional information about the events that you have not already noted in your post.

Writing Requirements

  • Minimum of 3 posts (1 initial & 2 follow-ups)
  • APA format for in-text citations and list of references

Grading

This activity will be graded using the Discussion Grading Rubric. Please review the following link:

Course Outcomes (CO): 3, 5, 6

Due Date for Initial Post: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Wednesday
Due Date for Follow-Up Posts: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday

References

Dyer, J. (Director), & Dyer, J. (Producer). (2005). A new deal: Part 5 [Video]. Dallas County Community College District. Academic Video Online.

Library of Congress. (2011, July 29). New Deal programs: Selected Library of Congress resources: Digitized materials. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/newdeal/am.html

Library of Congress. (2010, July 30). New Deal programs: Selected Library of Congress resources: Introduction. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/newdeal/intro.html

Library of Congress. (2015, September 25). New Deal programs: Selected Library of Congress resources. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/newdeal/

Library of Congress. (n.d.). President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933-1945. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/depwwii/newdeal/

Search entries or author Filter replies by unread Unread     Collapse replies Expand replies.

Reply to Week 6 Discussion 1: The New Deal